"What I need is reason/cognition/rationalization, and maybe I'll increase my [x] or extend it for a couple more weeks."
A deep spiritual awareness would help direct one's focus away from self and loving acts toward others. Get involved with humanitarian, weekend missionary deeds. There are plenty of people who have serious survival needs (spiritual and material)in one's own back yard. Anyone can make a big difference in other peoples lives.
I may be way off base, but I have seen this work. In God's Hand's...wondrous things are wrought.
Focus on the only reason why Man exists (IMHO) instead of the "Me syndrome" is key. Man is here to be the medium through which an Infinite being can become greater that It's own infinite structure, by also being finite, an infinite number of times and variations. (It'll take forever to accomplish this) This is done through a symbiotic relationship, called filled with the spirit, in Christian terms.
We are not here for us. We are only here for God to achieve the Purpose.
But the individual conciousness is rewarded by melding with this Infinite, while still maintaining individuality and awareness of that self.
"Heaven" is the forever it is going to take to always become closer, more in one, with the Infinite, at the rate you choose. It will take forever to always have More and More, kinetically connecting and gaining.